Description
Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation. The function mbedtls_x509_string_to_names() takes a head argument that is documented as an output argument. The documentation does not suggest that the function will free that pointer; however, the function does call mbedtls_asn1_free_named_data_list() on that argument, which performs a deep free(). As a result, application code that uses this function (relying only on documented behavior) is likely to still hold pointers to the memory blocks that were freed, resulting in a high risk of use-after-free or double-free. In particular, the two sample programs x509/cert_write and x509/cert_req are affected (use-after-free if the san string contains more than one DN).
INFO
Published Date :
2025-07-20T00:00:00.000Z
Last Modified :
2025-11-03T20:04:39.638Z
Source :
mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS
The following products are affected by CVE-2025-47917 vulnerability.
| Vendors | Products |
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| Arm |
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| Mbed |
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REFERENCES
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